Finance and the Cloud: Architecting Decision Support

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Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 2:00pm - Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 3:00pm

Part of The Finance and the Cloud Webcast Series

The cloud has fundamentally altered the cost structure for technology. Companies no longer need to worry about dedicated, perishable resources like computing power, bandwidth, storage and software when they can get what they need, when they need it, from the cloud.

Join Business Finance budgeting planning and forecasting guru Steve Player as he examines how innovative organizations are finding new, lower costs ways to conduct business. Also joining the discussion is Marvin Newell, a partner with Everest Group, who will examine how the cloud improves both the economics of IT spending as well as non-economic factors such as speed and flexibility.

This session will focus on how finance decision support activities are using cloud computing to support rapid, low cost management analysis and actions. This is speeding both implementations and dramatically expanding usage. Learn how software as a service is helping organizations to move beyond transaction processing and bring greater value to business managers across the enterprise.

ABOUT The Finance and the Cloud Webcast Series

The Internet fundamentally altered the way people share, consume, identify and connect around content. That evolution has shifted the business landscape. SaaS has enabled companies to lower their IT costs and the capital risk associated with innovation.

The three-part Finance and the Cloud Webcast Series addresses the fundamental changes being driven by the emergence of the cloud and how it can be best leveraged to better organize your operation and create greater value to finance professionals.

Learn some of the key improvements that are taking place in the technologies available for supporting the successful implementation and execution of an organization’s shared services initiative. Presenters will discuss the driving trends of cloud computing, from its potential risks, to its improvements in speed and affordability.

Find out how your finance team can harness the flexibility of shared services and turn that innovation into strategic execution.

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About our Presenters:

Steve Player is the North American Program Director for the Beyond Budgeting Round Table. He has also co-authored and edited five books on performance management and is a regular contributor on the subject of finance transformation for Business Finance. His latest book, Future Ready: How to Master Business Forecasting, on rolling forecasts is now available, and published by John Wiley & Sons.

Marvin Newell is a partner with Everest Group. He previously served as president and CEO of software companies Scalable Software and Zilliant and as a chief operating officer with Baan Software. Prior to Baan, Marvin was a principal with global management consulting firm McKinsey & Co. During his 14 years with McKinsey, he led strategy development, organizational transformation, and major change programs to capture fundamental improvements in clients’ competitive positions and performance.